A new survey suggests that potentially 3.1m more people would consider paying for financial advice but many are held back by a lack of trust.

For as long as I’ve been writing about Financial Planning, several decades now, people have been fretting about the 'fact' that the average age of a Financial Planner is 105 (ok a slight exaggeration) and many planners are ready to quit, leaving an empty shell of a profession.

Over half (51%) of Financial Planning firm owners said they expected to exit or sell their business within the next five years, according to new research.

Financial advisers and Paraplanners believe more clients will use pension pots to pass wealth on to dependants after the abolition of the Lifetime Allowance (LTA), according to a new survey.